epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Fareed Zakaria [Zakaria, Fareed]

CHAPTER 5 Too Much of a Good Thing THEY SAY THAT money can’t buy happiness, but you would think $5 trillion would make a dent. In the last quarter-century the ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-21 | Author:Michela Wrong

11 Gorging Their Fill ‘He’s a menace to the donors, he’s the taxpayers’ despair, For the Treasury is empty–but Macavity’s not there.’ British high commissioner EDWARD CLAY’s bastardised version of ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Daron Acemoglu [Acemoglu, Daron]

All this warfare and conflict not only caused major loss of life and human suffering but also put in motion a particular path of institutional development in Africa. Before the ...

epub |eng | 2010-04-25 | Author:Simon Kuper

A Cameroonian never calls himself a soccer fan: that he is speaks for itself. Charles was a fan too. One of the unemployed market sellers, he theoretically sold books, but ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lankov, Andrei [Lankov, Andrei]

THE CITY OF MONUMENTS Pyongyang is usually presented as an ancient city. And this, in a sense, is really the case. The area has been the site of a major ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-09 | Author:Csaba Nikolenyi

2) change in prime minister; 3) resignation of the government when followed by the re-formation of the same cabinet; 4) a general election. As for the unit of time, cabinet ...

mobi, epub |ru | 2011-08-11 | Author:Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Dealing with Good Deed Doers We commented earlier that “Successful leaders are not above repression, suppression, oppression, or even killing their rivals, real and imagined.” The truth of this statement ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Zeihan, Peter

American involvement with Myanmar, Thailand, and Singapore raises potential solutions to the economic problem raised by America’s possible interest in Taiwan and Korea. Those solutions are Australia and New Zealand. ...

mobi |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Zeihan, Peter [Zeihan, Peter]

American involvement with Myanmar, Thailand, and Singapore raises potential solutions to the economic problem raised by America’s possible interest in Taiwan and Korea. Those solutions are Australia and New Zealand. ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2015-01-18 | Author:Chayes, Sarah [Chayes, Sarah]

MEANWHILE an anticorruption operation was under way in Kabul. Just before dawn on July 25, 2010, an administrative assistant at the Afghan national security council named Muhammad Zia Salehi was ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-01 | Author:Simon Winchester [Simon Winchester]

The frontier with Montenegro is half an hour’s drive from the outskirts of Dubrovnik. From the main road it is possible to see—impossible to avoid, in fact—the zigzag track that ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-29 | Author:Simon Brett [Simon Brett]

Chapter Thirteen OUT OF THE corner of his eye, Charles kept catching movement on a television screen high in the corner of the marquee. White figures moved against a green ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:Drogus, Carol Ann & Orvis, Stephen [Drogus, Carol Ann]

CASE SUMMARY Institutionalists would expect India’s FPTP electoral system to create a two-party system. In India, however, great social and cultural diversity, a federal system, and FPTP have combined to ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:David Halberstam [Halberstam, David]

III HE WAS AN ODD and beguiling figure. Patrick Anderson had once written that Robert Kennedy was not a simple man, but many simple men; a good description. His reputation ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Anna Politkovskaya [Anna Politkovskaya]

20 THE DECISIVE BATTLE 20 March 2000 The fighting around the village of Komsomolskoe in the mountain foothills, now in its second week, will decide the fate not just of ...